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Investors are piling into Snap Inc. today (up over 7%) after hedge fund 13Fs over the weekend showed Appaloosa, Third Point, Soros, and Blackrock (among others) were all holders of the 'camera' company at the end of Q1...

One of the horses we have beaten to death starting in 2013 (with Why The TBAC Is Suddenly Very Worried About Market Liquidity) is that the relentless growth in ETFs in particular, and passive investing in general, is one of the greatest threats facing the US equity market for one main reason: "phantom liquidity", and specifically the thought experiment, conducted back in March 2015 by Howard Marks, of what happens if and when the ETF selling begins.